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Manicouagan Impact Site
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Drilling update - Manicouagan meteorite impact site
- Five bore holes completed to date, further drilling on-going.
- Disseminated sulphide mineralization (minor copper) was encountered in two holes, along with key Sudbury-type geological units in the additional holes, r...
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Researchers plan to drill more than a mile under the bay to search for watery pockets of a prehistoric ocean, bacteria that thrive in boiling heat and clues about the meteorite that left a 83 kilometre hole in Earth's surface.
About 35 million years ago, a meteorite smashed into what is now Virgin...
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Steven Curry meteorite
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Man Claims To Have Found First North American Lunar Rocks Steven Curry, a meteorite researcher who lives southeast of Montrose, claims to have found the first lunar meteorites in North America. But it's what's inside these meteorites that he says will change life as we know it. Curry has research si...
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Glatton Meteorite
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Glatton Meteorite: race to buy rare meteorite It came from outer space and crashed into the ground at more than 100mph narrowly missing a pensioner who was planting onions in his back garden in Glatton. Now, 18 years after the 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite crashed through conifers and a hedge and l...
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Willamette Meteorite
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After blazing from outer space to land in West Linn thousands of years ago, the Willamette Meteorite still generates excitement today. Fields Bridge Park will soon house an interpretive trail, located almost exactly where t...
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Peekskill Meteorite
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The events surrounding the fall of the Peekskill meteorite on October 9th, 1992 are quite remarkable. Not only did the meteorite announce its arrival by hitting a parked car in suburban Peekskill, New York, but also the fireball that proceeded the fall of the meteorite was videotaped by at least 16 i...
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Carbonado diamonds
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If indeed "a diamond is forever," the most primitive origins of Earth's so-called black diamonds were in deep, universal time, geologists have discovered. Black diamonds came from none other than interstellar space.
In a paper published online on December 20, 2006, in the journal Astrophysic...
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Eltanin Impact Structure
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An asteroid between one and four km in diameter splashed into the Southern Ocean, 1500 km SW of Chile, and may have worsened a period of global cooling that saw the emergence of modern humans... At the time of the Eltanin impact, Homo erectus was emerging in Africa
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Egypt's craters
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New research on a few of the more than 1,300 enigmatic craters found deep in Egypt's western desert has scientists scratching their heads.
The craters look like they were created by a spectacular ancient rain of meteors, or perhaps from a vast eruption of steam and gas from inside the Earth. Or mayb...
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Timucuan Preserve Round Marsh
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Did a meteor strike near Jacksonville 448 years ago? At sea in August 1564, a Spanish priest in Pedro Menendez' fleet wrote of a "miracle from heaven" - a comet as bright as the sun, streaking west toward Florida. On land, the hungry, miserable French settlers at Fort Caroline were stunned...
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Australian meteorite craters
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Meteorite craters in Australia As one of the oldest and least geologically disturbed continents, Australia has a rich record of meteorite craters. Of 176 confirmed impacts worldwide, our country bears the pockmarks of 30 - and about 20 others await confirmation. Indeed, as you read this, another...
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Lenggong Impact site
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Lenggong Impact site Date: 1.83 ± 0.61 million years old. Latitude: 5° 4'5.81"N, Longitude: 100°58'5.44"E (Rough)
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Serpent Mound Astrobleme
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An asteroid impacted in Ohio, US about 300 million years ago.
There is an approximately 6.4 kilometre diameter astrobleme just slightly to the northeast of the Serpent Mound*, near where the three counties, Adams, Pike and Highland come together.
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Odessa crater
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The Odessa crater was formed by a spectacular collision with our planet of an iron meteorite 63,500 years ago.
The Odessa meteorite, named after the town ten miles southwest in western Texas not far from the southeastern corner of New Mexico carved out five clustered craters, four small ones an...
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Tswaing crater
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Plans to build a new international airport on the site of the Tswaing crater outside Tshwane have hit a hitch.
The airport, which is to be named in honour of the late Brenda Fassie, was proposed ten months ago.
It has been enthusiastically promoted as an alternative to the air traffic congestion a...
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